Young filmmaker reapplies the science of Brown v. Board of Education
On the heels of the Supreme Court’s school integration decision, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund has released “A Girl Like Me” a documentary by New York City high school student Kiri Davis. Davis replicates and captures on film Kenneth and Mamie Clark’s doll experiment (the study that undergirded Brown v. Board of Education) with what can only be described as heartbreaking results with respect to how deeply ingrained self-directed racial bias still is even among the youngest of African-American children. The silver lining: A reaffirmation that there are smart, passionate, dedicated young people like Davis to take on the mantle of a new civil rights movement.
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- Posted by BeenieMum | 12:31 pm


Monday ~ July 2, 2007